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    "summary": "I'm an experienced software engineer looking for remote Golang contracting work.\nI enjoy working with dynamic teams and finding good tradeoffs for software, teams and projects.",
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      "countryCode": "UK"
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      "name": "Infosum",
      "position": "Backend Contractor - Golang",
      "url": "https://infosum.com/",
      "startDate": "2022-04-01",
      "endDate": "2022-10-01",
      "summary": "Created & maintained critical user-facing HTTP/gRPC APIs",
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        "Instigated the development of explicit system-wide API 'levels' (public, bounded context, internal)",
        "Pushed to increase the adoption of event-driven architecture",
        "Crafted software with particular emphasis on security, privacy, reliability and throughput",
        "Helped to define business domains and entities",
        "Collborated with front-end and other back-end teams to ensure a cohesive user experience"
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    {
      "name": "River Island",
      "position": "Tech Lead",
      "url": "https://www.riverisland.com/",
      "startDate": "2021-09-01",
      "endDate": "2020-04-01",
      "summary": "I worked closely with technical architects, software engineers and business stakeholders to integrate a new warehouse provider into existing infrastructure",
      "highlights": [
        "Keystone project to improve logistical efficiency and growth potential",
        "Management role to align the team's technical direction with business objectives"
      ]
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      "name": "River Island",
      "position": "Software Engineer - Golang",
      "url": "https://www.riverisland.com/",
      "startDate": "2020-08-01",
      "endDate": "2021-09-01",
      "summary": "Transformed and exported key data streams to new wholesale partners, expanding an important part of the business",
      "highlights": [
        "Used simple serverless architecture (AWS Lambdas and SQS with Golang) to reduce our devops burden"
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      "name": "SMC",
      "position": "Software Engineer - Golang",
      "url": "https://smc-gateway.com",
      "startDate": "2020-04-01",
      "endDate": "2020-07-01",
      "summary": "Hacked on a raw harware device and added commercial features.",
      "highlights": [
        "Enabled third-party developers to interface directly with our main application (using standard I/O)"
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      "name": "Ratio",
      "position": "Software Engineer - Golang, Node, PHP",
      "url": "https://www.ratio.co.uk/",
      "startDate": "2019-06-01",
      "endDate": "2020-03-01",
      "summary": "Led several projects end-to-end; added features and reduced maintenance burden",
      "highlights": [
        "Automated complex reporting processes, saving 2 engineer-hours/day",
        "Centralised reusable domain models, simplifying development workflow"
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      "name": "Deliveroo",
      "position": "Software Engineer - Golang, Ruby",
      "url": "https://www.deliveroo.com/",
      "startDate": "2016-11-01",
      "endDate": "2019-05-01",
      "summary": "Routinely led features end-to-end: definition, development and release",
      "highlights": [
        "I was part of the Customer Experience team: total focus on the customer",
        "Launched several successful products: Order Tracker (customers can view order progress) & Self-help flow (customers can claim compensation and find help)",
        "Led the company-wide movement to start deprecating old apps, reducing our maintenance burden and improving the order rate",
        "Collaborated with other teams to improve our data pipeline"
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      "name": "Snaptrip",
      "position": "Software Engineer - Ruby",
      "url": "https://www.snaptrip.com/",
      "startDate": "2016-11-01",
      "endDate": "2014-10-01",
      "summary": "We were a scrappy startup and I got stuck in everywhere",
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      "name": "Forward3D",
      "position": "Data Analyst - Ruby",
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/forward3d",
      "startDate": "2012-01-01",
      "endDate": "2014-09-01",
      "summary": "I was initially an analyst but taught myself to code. I genuinely automated most of my job with hacky scripts",
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      "institution": "Durham University",
      "url": "https://www.durham.ac.uk/homepage/",
      "area": "Anthropology and Archaeology",
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        "simplicity"
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      "name": "Soft/Core Skills",
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      "name": "Web Development",
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      "name": "Ruby",
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        "Rails",
        "Scripting"
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      "name": "Architecture",
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      "name": "Linux",
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        "Docker",
        "Bash",
        "Automation"
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        "Kibana"
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      "name": "Kubernetes",
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      "name": "Haskell",
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      "name": "Rust",
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      "name": "GopherCon 2019 Talk",
      "description": "'Monolith Decomposition at Deliveroo' - I discussed how and why we decided to break apart our Rails monolith, the tradeoffs with different architechtrural patterns and languages",
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      "name": "URL-Shortener written in Golang",
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      "name": "Snake written in Haskell (I gave a talk about this at Deliveroo)",
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      "name": "Chip-8 Emulator written in C",
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